I’ve been listening to the Worlds Apart CD by Blue Stone. It was recommended to my by Amazon.com. Amazon’s datamining must know me better than anybody else. The Worlds Apart CD has made it into my mental list of favorite music. I’ve put in an order for Blue Stone’s first CD Breathe and am looking forward to hearing it.
UPDATE:
I received the Breathe CD and it is good. I want to hear more from Blue Stone.
Here’s an interesting search engine: Ms Dewey. It appears to be a Microsoft product. I find it to be rather graphics heavy as a Flash implementation and the results are a bit hard to see. Still, it’s cute.
I’ve learned that a wine enthusist friend of mine is starting up his own winery and vineyard. He and his brother are in the process of buying land in Walla Walla, Washington. My friend says they plan to focus on Syrah. Californian Syrah has been rising in popularity, but there are only a few wineries making Syrah wines in Washington state. My friend’s aim is to become the dominant Syrah winery in Washington.
The name they’ve selected for their venture is Rasa Vineyards. Rasa means “essence” in Sanskrit. They wanted to tie their heritage to their winery’s vision of it’s wine: making great wines that highlight the essance of the soil and varietal characteristics.